means是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 方法， 手段，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lived with him some time, and acquainted myself by that means with the manner of planting and making of sugar; and seeing how well the planters lived, and how they got rich suddenly, I resolved, if I could get a licence to settle there, I would turn planter among them: resolving in the meantime to find out some way to get my money, which I had left in London, remitted to me.
-- Neither was this all; for my goods being all English man-ufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage; so that I might say I had more than four times the value of my first cargo, and was now infinitely beyond my poor neighbour - I mean in the advancement of my plantation; for the first thing I did, I bought me a negro slave, and an European servant also - I mean another besides that which the captain brought me from Lisbon.
-- But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me.
-- I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeav-oured to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me up again; but I soon found it was impossible to avoid it; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water if I could; and so, by swimming, to preserve my breathing, and pilot myself towards the shore, if possible, my greatest concern now being that the sea, as it would car-ry me a great way towards the shore when it came on, might not carry me back again with it when it gave back towards the sea.
-- By this means all her quarter was free, and all that was in that part was dry; for you may be sure my first work was to search, and to see what was spoiled and what was free.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The whole was tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters.
-- To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence."
-- He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it.
-- I am by no means assured of his regard for me.
-- Conversation however was not wanted, for Sir John was very chatty, and Lady Middleton had taken the wise precaution of bringing with her their eldest child, a fine little boy about six years old, by which means there was one subject always to be recurred to by the ladies in case of extremity, for they had to enquire his name and age, admire his beauty, and ask him questions which his mother answered for him, while he hung about her and held down his head, to the great surprise of her ladyship, who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Minnie pondered a while, not upon whether she could or would go-- for that point was already negatively settled with her--but upon some means of diverting the thoughts of her sister to some other topic.
-- "We'll go some other time," she said at last, finding no ready means of escape.
-- Every little while her eyes would meet his, and by that means the interchanging current of feeling would be fully connected.
-- Carrie was not by any means a gloomy soul.
-- His wife, quite attractive, affected the feeling of youth, and objected to that sort of home life which means the care of a house and the raising of a family.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But per'aps if we keep them till they're ransomed, it means that we keep them till they're dead. '
-- That means I have bought it of you and paid you for it.
-- Orgies is better, because it means the thing you're after more exact.
-- If you get here before eleven put a candle in this window, and if I don't turn up wait TILL eleven, and THEN if I don't turn up it means I'm gone, and out of the way, and safe.
-- Got it out of a book means the more haste the less speed.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am sorry to contradict my famous friend and colleague," said the Owl, "but as far as I'm concerned, I think that when the dead weep, it means they do not want to die."
-- There were only two means left to him in order to get a bite to eat.
-- He had said that the real poor in this world, deserving of our pity and help, were only those who, either through age or sickness, had lost the means of earning their bread with their own hands.
-- All the means used by centuries of civilization in subduing wild beasts failed in this case.
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